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This is a list of events in 1780 in Delaware.
Incumbents
Events
- October 20 – The 5th Delaware General Assembly convenes succeeding the 4th.
Births
- January 15 – Cornelius P. Comegys, farmer and politician, 31st governor (d. 1851)
- August 7 – Benjamin Ferris, watchmaker and historian (d. 1867)
- October 17 – Thomas Beale Dorsey, farmer, lawyer, politician and judge (d. 1855)
- December 24 – Willard Hall, attorney and politician (d. 1875)
Undated
- William Bayard Shields, judge, lawyer and politician (d. 1823)
Deaths
- August 19 – Johann de Kalb, Franconian-born French military officer (b. 1721)
Undated
- Hugh Montgomery, sea captain (b. unknown)
See also
References
- "Maryland State Archives". Retrieved 18 November 2013.
- "Hall, Willard - Federal Judicial Center". www.fjc.gov.
- "HALL, Willard 1780 – 1875". bioguide.congress.gov. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 27 December 2023.
- William David McCain, The Journal of Mississippi History (1979).
- Montgomery 1851, p. 181.
- "Petition of Elizabeth Montgomery, Report 317". The Reports of the Committees of the Senate of the United States for the Third Session of the Thirty-Fourth Congress. Washington. 1857. pp. 146–7.
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- Montgomery, Elizabeth (1851). Reminiscences of Wilmington, in Familiar Village Tales, Ancient and New. T.K. Collins, Jr.